 What's the word y'all? Yesterday we had one of the most anticipated games of the NBA regular season. With the Warriors who started off 17 and two with the MVP of the league, so far Steph Curry going against the Phoenix Suns who started off one and three but going into last night was on a 16 game win streak. The two best teams in the league going hand to hand and it lived up to the hype. You had Steve Kurramani, Williams two coaches that had competed for coach of the year really giving it all the Warriors are a team that'll start off with man and then give you some zone give you some bucks and one to keep their opponents on their heels, they did that. The Suns have a great defensive team steer headed by the two headed monster named Miquel Bridges and Deandre Aiden and they both came to play two great defensive teams and I loved every single minute of it. I said two headed monster Miquel Bridges and Deandre Aiden but I don't want to discredit like Kim Johnson, Jay Crowder, even Landry Shaman played some great defensive minutes. Chris Paul, the Suns have this arsenal of great defensive wings that some of the best in the entire league and it's a bit weird right because even though the Phoenix Suns won a 16 game win streak, nobody really is really talking about it. At least when I say nobody, I mean like on national TV, if you turn it on, everybody's talking about Warriors, Lakers, Brooklyn Nets but the team that was just in the finals last year was on a 16 game win streak and nobody really cared. We even saw some of the biggest names in sports media saying that the window for the Suns to be a championship team had closed. Closed? After one season, a lot of people were a bit skeptical about the Suns and I can kind of understand it to an extent, right? When you think about last year, they ran into a ton of injury luck and I'm not faulting it for that, you can only play against the team that's ahead of you but they ran into a lot of injury luck and some people saw then say that all last year was a fake where yesterday beating the Warriors while they won the best teams in the league hopefully opened up the eyes to some people to have people realize the Suns are a real contender still. They had what they had last season brought everybody back. They extended McKill Bridges, extended Chris Paul, did not extend DeAndre Aiden. I don't know how you don't extend him after a game like last night. He should get the bag this off season but they brought the same team back another year of gelling and they are really looking like one of the best teams in the league if not the best team in the league. Now in today's video, I wanna go over some of my favorite possessions or what led to the Phoenix Suns getting his win and why they are the real deal and since then I got the iPad and the iPad's gonna have some footage and because I'm using footage this game or this video probably will not be monetized so let me talk about my sponsor, of course, prize picks. Hit that link in the description and download the prize pick app and use code Kenny because they're matching up to $100 for all new users. I just opened up the app and immediately saw this. They're running a promo right now for Trey Young. Make it rain. Each entry contained in Trey Young received $3 if he scores at least one, three pointer versus the Pacers. That's a lot. 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So hit that link in the description, download the prize picks app and use code Kenny because they're matching all deposits up to 100 for new players against out to prize picks. Those are the homies over there. So let's talk about McHale Bridges, y'all. There was something that was trending on Twitter name McHale jail because he was able to lock up the guy that looks like he's run away with MVP and Steph Curry. Now Steph Curry did have a decent amount of open looks that just didn't fall, that'll probably fall on Friday because these teams go against each other again later this week, but McHale Bridges made it so tough for this man to do anything. It reminded me of just like a few years ago. Do y'all remember when the Warriors were like really bad and Steph Curry had to basically come out there and try to drop 100 every single night for them to have a chance to win where they were throwing double and triple teams at Steph Curry every night. They're not doing that anymore but today it felt like one of them's nights because you saw McHale Bridges in his eight arms everywhere. I love McHale Bridges because he has the ability to guard a player like Steph Curry but he also has the ability to switch onto bigger players on bigs and hold his own. There is a video by another YouTuber named Heat Check that he dropped like two weeks ago showcasing McHale Bridges' defense on like Chris Dapsport-Zingis and I'll put that link in the description. He has so much range as a defender. We have people even like Bobby March who's a respected player person in NBA media even though he used to, I'm not even gonna talk about it. Talk about what he did when he's the front office guy. Bobby March is campaigning for McHale Bridges to be an All-Star this season. That's how good of a defensive player he is. He is a lock for the All-Defensive team as long as he stayed healthy. He was everywhere. So I re-watched the game this morning and I picked out some of my favorite plays from it that showcase some of the great defense from the Phoenix Suns. So I'm gonna start off in the second quarter here. The Warriors have a six point lead at the moment and it starts off when McHale Bridges has the assignment. He had the assignment for most of the night but Cam Johnson has the ability to switch on and hold his own. Little size up from Steph Curry, size up, not going anywhere. Let me switch it over and Chris Paul gets his hands in the passing lane. Now this is something that Steve Kerr in the team decided to do a lot starting in the second quarter to try to get open looks for Steph Curry. A super high screen from Draymond. They do this all the time but you see how high, let's go back. You see how high DeAndre Aiden is playing on it because he is Steph Curry, right? And he has that type of range to pull from the Y in the Valley, right? This is not how they play defense on every pick and roll played and we'll showcase some of that later when they had Andrew Wiggins in the pick and roll. This is not how high DeAndre Aiden always played but when it was Steph Curry, they had no other choice. Now this plays funny because I think Steph Curry did everything right. You know, he got him to jump. He just missed the layup but it was like one of those plays where it ended up in a three for Jordan Poole so you missed the layup to get three but I just wanna showcase how high they were really playing on him on these pick and rolls. Marty Williams basically mirrored Steph Curry minutes with McHale Bridges. Whenever Steph Curry came back in the game you knew McHale was coming back and you see no matter what he was not letting Steph Curry get any wiggle room and the Warriors just turned the ball over a ton and that's kind of normal for a team like this. A lot of their offense is read and react and sometimes you misread or you misreact so they're gonna get a lot of turnovers passing the ball to some place that doesn't have a player but it also when it does work it's some of the best basketball in the league. Now this is one of my favorite two possessions of the entire game. Another high screen, DeAndre Ada completely gets the switch and he blocks Steph Curry's three. How many times in the history of Steph Curry three-pointers switching onto centers? Onto actual centers have we seen a center stand their own against Steph Curry and deflect a three-pointer from that deep? That is showcasing the versatility of DeAndre Ada. Now he scored on the other end. This is the very, very next possession and this is why I said this is the two-headed monster. 17-6-1 for the Phoenix Suns. You got Draymond Green trying to initiate the offense. A little screen. We got the switch for DeAndre Ada again. He gets the blow-by. This is what you expect for Steph Curry to do with DeAndre Ada. As good of a defender he is, he can't stay in front of Steph Curry long term, right? So you get the blow-by by Steph Curry and I just want to slow this down. So again, you see McElbridge is hugging, hugging Draymond. Now this right here, let me freeze it right here. When Steph Curry is past DeAndre Ada, I think 99% of defenders is helping immediately. Help off Draymond Green to guard Steph Curry is an easy thing to do. But what McEl does is he waits like one second. Let me go a little bit further. He waits one second later. Once he sees Steph Curry has completely picked up the ball and that is when he starts to react to deflect the ball or to get the block. That is amazing timing by McEl Bridges and one of the reasons why bro should be on the all defensive team. And McEl Bridges uses his wingspan to his advantage and every opportunity he gets. This is a play where Draymond Green sees an open window but no because McEl Bridges put those pterodactyl arms up and prevents them from getting the entry pass down below. I was gonna make a video similar to this talking about McEl Bridges after the game where he had like seven steals in the first half against the Brooklyn Nets. There's no pass that you can make around McEl Bridges that you can throw soft because he will go out there and get it. And this is another great example of that later in the third quarter. They try to just do a lack today's capacity. Steph Curry, a pass that you can make 99% of the time but the 1% is when McEl Bridges is guarding the person he's trying to pass it to. And here's what I was talking about earlier. There's no Steph Curry on the court right now and there's no McEl Bridges on the court right now but there's still great team defense. You're gonna see, you're gonna get Wiggins on a little pick right here. This is pretty much a similar action to what they were just running with Steph Curry but you can see Deandre Aiden is not up on that at all. He is sunk all the way down and that just shows a different kind of coverage just between when you're guarding Steph Curry or guarding anybody else in the league. Deandre Aiden stays put, stays two feet in the paint and gets a great block. Him as a defensive anchor this season has been amazing. And right here you show the versatility of McEl Bridges' game. You saw him guard Steph Curry earlier and this is him stopping an entry pass to the Monabulaza and this is gonna lead to a shot clock violation. He can guard every position on the court. It's insane. Now this is another one of my favorite possessions from this game. Tim and his left in it. The Suns are only up by one. First of all, just look at this frame right here. This man, McEl Bridges can probably stand up straight and tie his shoes. My boy, look at those arms. But this just shows the amount of communication. The amount of, I don't know, just team cohesion. Cohesion? I don't know the word. I'm trying to, just watch this play. I'm not even gonna pause it. I'm just gonna commentate over it. So Steph Curry has the ball. Little entry pass to the Bilica. Steph Curry cuts through. Boom, you got another pass to Juan Toscano Anderson. I'm gonna pause it, I'm sorry. On the side where Steph Curry, I want you to pay attention to this. A cut through. Chris Paul and McEl Bridges switch right there and Chris Paul is playing deny heavily on Steph Curry. Now watch how fast him and Cam Johnson switch this right here. When you see Steph Curry trying to come up off the screen. Boom, just like that. Now it's Cam Johnson. And now we got another switch down below and it is a turnover. What? How fast all of that happened in a scheme of basketball is crazy. Now we got a little under five minutes left in the game. Still a one point game. McElbridge is up top. You're gonna see a switch with Deondre. Aiden holds it's on. Look how great he plays defense right here. And now they're like, Oh, Jermaine Green got a small defender. No, you don't. Because McElbridge does not allow a simple entry pass to go. And this is one of the last stops of the entire game that mattered. A lot of confusion here, but not for the Phoenix Suns. They get a deflection. Get it to Draymond Green. McElbridge switches back up on Steph Curry. And just like that, a great defensive stop from the Phoenix Suns. McElbridge is leads the league right now and an amount of shots contested on the three point line. And he very rarely follows these three point shooters. And that's some of the last footage I have. They were able to close out this game. And at one point the Warriors went like two and a half minutes without scoring. Great team defense. And did I mention that Devon Booker got injured in the first half? One of the clutches players in the entire league. If not the clutches player of the entire league this season was not able to play in a close game. And they still had Chris Paul closed it out. Yeah, Linger Shammy hit some big shots. And Jay Crowder also hit some big shots. And overall, this just showcases that the Suns are still real. There was nothing that happened last season as far as the way they play basketball that in my mind was unsubstainable. Sometimes you have team going to playoffs run where they're shooting a legendary from three. And you know that the next season they probably won't have that same streak. They play the same basketball every single night. And that is good enough for them to win games. Amen. If you enjoyed our deep dive, if you want to call it that, be sure to leave it a like. And remember y'all, enjoy basketball.